What Are You Reading Today?

**OC Richard** · 11th August 12, 06:20 PM

Boy I just couldn't finish Sarum. Got around 1/4 way in.

CS Lewis is awesome... I read a great biography of him The Narnian. After reading it I was dismayed to hear people telling me about the plot of that movie about Lewis... seems like they left out the vast majority of his life, and left out the most intruiging and longest relationship of his life.

Anyhow I'm reading The Real Eve again... so much info, one reading doesn't do it. I love all that human genome/out of Africa/monogenesis stuff.

Just finished rereading Gore Vidal's Lincoln.

**ThistleDown** · 11th August 12, 08:03 PM

I don't know The Real Eve, but have you read The Seven Daughters of Eve, Richard? I love that stuff, too. My latest addition to the I-am-reading table is Crime Machine by Giles Blunt. That's sharing space and time with Gregg's Controversial Issues in Scottish History, Deerpoofing Your Garden, and Bain's The Lordship of Petty.

**Inchessi** · 12th August 12, 09:00 AM

I am about 1/4 of the way through Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple. It is an interesting book surrounded by controversy.

**Sheep In Wolf's Clothing** · 12th August 12, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

CS Lewis is awesome... I read a great biography of him The Narnian. After reading it I was dismayed to hear people telling me about the plot of that movie about Lewis... seems like they left out the vast majority of his life, and left out the most intruiging and longest relationship of his life.

Very good book. I enjoyed it as well.

**Mike_Oettle** · 12th August 12, 03:34 PM

Now reading Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser.
Just finished Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith.
Before that: Dunkirk: The British Evacuation, 1940, by Robert Jackson.

Tom, I have read two of the Siri Paiboun novels and enjoyed them greatly.

**TheOfficialBren** · 28th September 12, 12:35 AM

I usually bounce back-and-forth between a couple books at a time. Right now I'm reading
"The Somme" by Martin Gilbert
"1066" by David Howarth
And "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene

**TheOfficialBren** · 28th September 12, 12:37 AM

C. S. Lewis was a genius. I have one of his Space Trilogy books but it is the second volume so I have to purchase and read the first volume before tackling this one.

**frank_a** · 28th September 12, 02:04 AM

I'm reading Midst Toil and Tribulation by David Weber, the 6th book in a series about Safehold, a far away planet inhabited by humans who have evolved a complex feudal society that has been held back by larger powers from a tech standpoint. It is a classic good versus evil thing, very engaging.

I just finished reading an excellent novel set partly in Scotland and the Orkneys that is about a family that has the capability to relive the lives of their ancestors. It's a bit more complicated than that, but is a very engaging book as well. The title is "The Covenant Within" by R.A.R Clousten.

Frank

**Mike_Oettle** · 28th September 12, 06:17 AM

Currently reading Sharpe’s Sword, by Bernard Cornwell.
Recently read:
Highlander: The Story of the Highland Soldier by Tim Newark, and three by Alexander McCall Smith: The Comfort of Saturdays, The Careful Use of Compliments and Morality for Beautiful Girls.
Regards,
Mike

**COScotsman** · 28th September 12, 08:08 AM

Frontier Scots:The Scots who won the West by Jenni Calder
The Quest for Celtic Christianity by Donald E. Meeks
Soul Print by Mark Batterson

These are three at the moment.